> In any other software it would be an error, regression, bug.
How is "bug", literally an organism with a will of its own that you cannot control, any less of a weasel word?
How is "bug", literally an organism with a will of its own that you cannot control, any less of a weasel word?
But on reflection I don't disagree it was probably made for similar effect in the era of human software development. That sounds like it strengthens my point?
People don't consider "bug" a weasel word, to the point that you yourself held it up as an example of not being a weasel word, despite it being a willful, uncontrollable organism.
I see no reason why "hallucination" won't become a similar piece of neutral jargon. It already is for many people, even if you're not (yet?) among them.
If you want this class of LLM error to also become habitual and neutral then fine, I don't, and I think many others don't.